I have developed an app with system Tray having menu in Python 2.6.4 and PyQt4.
Every client system has python installed locally, and accessing PyQt4 from network location.
I set SystemTray and required icons for menu items as below.
App folder has icons folder from where i am using. so i used os.getcwd()
i kept this app folder in a network so that everyone can access.
self.mnuItem_1 = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon(r'%s\icons\icon1.ico' % (os.getcwd())), "Menu Item 1", self)
self.mnuItem_2 = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon(r'%s\icons\icon1.ico' % (os.getcwd())), "Menu Item 1", self)
self.trayIconMenu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.mnuItem_1)
self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.mnuItem_2)
self.trayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(self)
self.trayIcon.setContextMenu(self.trayIconMenu)
TrayIcon = (r'%s\ShowTime_Addons\Media\showtimeIcon.ico' % (os.getcwd()))
self.trayIcon.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon(TrayIcon))
self.trayIcon.setToolTip('Showtime')
self.trayIcon.show()
In some systems i could able to see the icons, but in some systems icons are not shown.
For testing i placed .png and used and it worked.
self.mnuItem_1 = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon(r'%s\icons\icon1.png' % (os.getcwd())), "Menu Item 1", self)
self.mnuItem_2 = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon(r'%s\icons\icon1.png' % (os.getcwd())), "Menu Item 1", self)
So came to an understanding that the issue is not with the path but something else.
I found out a solution for this scenario
One approach is to set the paths in qt.config file and place this in the location of your executable.(In my case its C:\Python26)
As i discribed in my Question that i am accessing PyQt4 from Network Location say \\somesystem\Share\PyQt4
We will find a qt.config file in \\somesystem\Share\PyQt4
Take it and put this below lines in qt.conf
[Paths]
Prefix = //somesystem/Share/PyQt4
Binaries = //somesystem/Share/PyQt4
Everything works fine, even sqldrivers will be loaded. No Need of using app.addLibraryPath